摘錄自 Jenifer Goodwin之 快樂是一顆專注的心
EXECUTIVE HEALTH November 11, 2010
新的研究顯示當人們的心思從他們手上的任務或活動飄走時，他們比全心投入手中工作時要來得不快樂。
本研究作者哈佛大學心理學博士生Matthew Killingsworth解釋：人類的心思特別有能力「漫遊」，也就是說能深思過去、預測未來、計畫些可能會發生的事。這項能力也是人類之所以為人的特質之一。
然而，心思漫遊是有代價的，就是當人們心思跑到他們正在做的事情之外時，快樂感將會降低。
Matthew Killingsworth說：「人類似乎特別有能力將注意力放在”非”當下。他們有能力反思過去、計畫未來和想像出可能沒有機會發生的事情。」「不過，在此同時，人類似乎也是這項特質的笨拙使用者，且它傾向降低快樂，而非提昇快樂。」
研究中，2,250參與者在一天當中的不特定時間被提醒要使用iPhone的網頁應用軟體。並詢問他們當下的感受、當時在做甚麼、當時是否在想其他事情，他們正在思索的事情是愉快的、不愉快的或是不好不壞的。
研究顯示，參與者在清醒時間內近47%心思都花在「漫遊」的狀態。Matthew Killingsworth說：「本研究顯示我們的心思被大量的”非當下”時刻所佔據了」。
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哪些是類似的？哪些是不同的？
本日問題: 你擅長什麼? What are you good at?
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本日問題: 上個星期你覺得最開心的事是什麼？
線上討論會系列介紹：本日問題
我之前每周五有英文討論課。我們原本都是要討論最新新聞事件的文章，但是我很快發現，課堂中最有趣的部份是，大家輪流回答相同的問題。每個人都從別人的身上學到他們生活、思考的方式，還有他們究竟是誰。因此，承襲這個精神，這是本日問題：上個星期你覺得最開心的事是什麼？
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Introducing a new discussion series: the Question of the Day!
我之前每周五有英文討論課。我們原本都是要討論最新新聞事件的文章，但是我很快發現，課堂中最有趣的部份是，大家輪流回答相同的問題。每個人都從別人的身上學到他們生活、思考的方式，還有他們究竟是誰。因此，承襲這個精神，這是本日問題：上個星期你覺得最開心的事是什麼？
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Introducing a new discussion series: the Question of the Day!
A little extra for you all: Corporate Cannibal
I've looked all over, but can't find the lyrics yet. When I can, I'll post them.
Updated to say: Here's a link to lyrics, scroll down a bit to find them.
Meanwhile, some excerpts from an interesting post on The Pinocchio Theory:
In the video, Jones is frightening, ferocious, predatory, vampiric. She has become pure electronic pulse, materiality of the electronic medium ... — and she will utterly devour and destroy (convert into more image, more electronic pulse, more of herself) whatever thinks it might be able to stand apart from the process.
Jones’ voice is at first wheedling (”Pleased to meet you/ Pleased to have you on my plate”), before it turns stentorian, imperative, and threatening; and at the end of the song it modulates again, beyond words, into a predatory growl or snarl. She is telling us flatly that she will destory and devour us (”I’m a man-eating machine… Eat you like an animal… Every man, woman, and child is a target”). She is a vampire, but not a romantic one: rather, the song expresses Jones’ absolute identification with Capital as a vampiric force (remember that Marx long ago described capitalism as vampiric: “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks”). Jones sings: “I deal in the market… A closet full of faceless, nameless, pay-more-for-less emptiness… You’ll pay less tax but I will gain more back… I’ll consume my consumers.” Her lyrics absurdly juxtapose the cliches of corporate-speak (”Employer of the year”) with those of pulp horror (”Grandmaster of fear”).
Grace Jones is forcing us to confront the way in which, today, even the transgression that might have thrilled us twenty-five years ago is little more than another marketing strategy. Or the way in which, beyond all those discourses about race and gender and “the body,” the only thing that is “transgressive” today is Capital itself, which devours everything without any regard for boundaries, distinctions, or degrees of legitimacy; which “transgresses” the very possibility of “transgression,” because it is always only transgressing itself in order to create still more of itself, devouring not only its own tail but its entire body, in order to achieve even greater levels of monstrosity. Or, as Dejan puts it, in the video “you can see directly the intimate bond between animation and the mutability of Capital,” as Jones’ electronic mutations or modulations track and embrace and coincide with the metamorphoses of Capital itself, in our world of delirious financial flows and hedge funds and currency manipulations and bad debts passed on from one speculator to the next ...
“Corporate Cannibal” ... gives the most profound expression or articulation that I have yet come across to the affect of the vertiginous “globalized network society” we live in today.
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